Marmalade, a young orange tabby cat, is on the mend after enduring what animal rescuers believe was a grim and painful experience.
“I did the X-Ray, and we all just were staring at it because it was unlike something we would typically see on a day-to-day. You don’t see an animal that’s been shot every single day,” said Cailey Seymour, executive director at Dorset Rescue Kittens.
Dorset Rescue Kittens (DRK), a non-profit rescue located in Puslinch, Ont., was contacted by a concerned community member just before the Labour Day weekend about an injured cat in a Cambridge neighbourhood.
“My colleague was cleaning up his paw, which was at the time pretty much from his elbow down to his claws [and] was completely covered in blood and pus that had been kind of building up over the course of probably 7 to 10 days,” Seymour told CTV News in an interview …